Master Above 60 Pilotage Chartwork Course

 Chart Work, Pilotage CP 1 Training for 60 GT Master, 150 GT Mate Fisherman IV

Learn chart work, pilotage and CP1 accredited by Transport Canada. TC licenses are for mariners operating vessels above 60 ton.

Master and the 150 GT Mate and Fishing Master IV.

Contact us at QuickNav Marine training for current training and other courses that may be required to meet Mariner industry standards.

What is Covered in CP1 Pilotage Above 60 Master Chart Course Training?

You will be learn the principles of construction of different types of charts and their practical use in chart-work, including buoys and fog signals. You will become familiar with the use of parallel rules and dividers, so you can convert “compass” bearings and course lines to “True” ones.  In this comprehensive marine training course you will cover far more than is listed, but here are some of the basic of what is included and required for the Master >60 Chart work and Pilotage Course.

Marine Chart Goals

Ability to determine the ship’s position by use of:

1) Landmarks
2) Aids to navigation, including lighthouses, beacons and buoys
3) Dead reckoning, taking into account winds, tides, currents and estimated speed

Covered in the CP1 Course

  • The chart, its nature and function as an aid to navigation
  • Practical effects of protection distortion, numbering and the presentation of information factors affecting reliability of charts
  • Ability to use Mercator and polyconic charts
  • Light characteristics and colours and sound signals used as aids to navigation
  • List of lights, Buoys and Fog Signals
  • Tide tables, radio aids to marine navigation, sailing directions
  • Canadian Buoyage System and its use
  • Use and purpose of Notices to Shipping and Notices to Mariners and chart corrections
  • Charts symbols and abbreviations as published in Canadian Hydrographic Service Chart No.1
  • Chartwork Exercises Locating a vessel’s position on the chart by simultaneous true bearings or true bearing and distance
  • Locating a vessel’s position by two or more simultaneous distances
  • Determining the latitude and longitude of a given position
  • Locating a position by its latitude and longitude, and its true bearing and distance from a given point
  • Laying off a course between given positions
  • Measuring the true direction of a course laid-off on the chart; Measuring distance on chart
  • Finding the DR position by given course, speed, time elapsed from last observed position
  • Plotting on a chart or by other acceptable method of the applicant’s choice
  • Demonstrating an appreciation that current or wind may affect the vessel’s course and speed over the ground
  • Determining speed over the ground between observed positions
  • Determining the true course made good between observed positions
  • Appreciation of the need to keep an accurate record of the vessel’s progress, and the keeping of this record
  • Care of dividers and parallel rules
  • Periodic operator checks and determination of compass error by comparison with true terrestrial bearings or headings
  • Determining and recording compass deviation
  • Use of the magnetic compass to determine accuracy of the gyro compass by comparison
  • Correcting courses and bearings for compass error, magnetic variation and deviation.

Note: A Candidate Document Number (CDN) is a TRANSPORT CANADA requirement before we can issue your certificate. You can still take the course but try to have your CDN prior to class.

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Cost $950.00

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